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    Lodging at Lugo to Melide and Arzua onwards

    Hi Wen, The Hotel Brios in Lugo is relatively cheap and nice. There's a new albergue that opened about a month ago about 10km after San Roman which makes the Lugo - Melide leg more do-able. Melide is very hard because the French trail joins the Primitivo. If you have tents you can ask at the...
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    Camping Caminio Primitivo

    Ange, Interesting comments - I'd like to offer a slightly different point of view though, if I may. We just finished the Primitivo from Oviedo on Aug 20. We took tents and I was glad we did. Lots of the albergues were full and/or pretty dirty and the one in the town of Salas was closed (last...
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    Bank Machines

    John, We did the Primitivo last August and are intending to do it again this coming August. Definitely there are cash machines in Grado and Salas - I can't remember exactly where else between Oviedo and Lugo but you pass through enough decently sized places for it not to be a big concern. It's...
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    starting at Oviedo

    Piru, Also check out Iberia - depending on the day and time you can fly roundtrip from Madrid to Asturias for 57 euros (of course you're probably not flying back from Oviedo but round trip fares are usually cheaper than one-way). Or you can fly back from Santiago and if you price it using...
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    Decent Hotel/Pension in Oviedo?

    Thanks, Sil - that looks perfect. David
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    Decent Hotel/Pension in Oviedo?

    Does anyone have a suggestion for a reasonable 50 euro-ish hotel or pension in Oviedo near the center? Thanks!
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    Cycling the Camino Del Norte?

    I haven't cycled it but last year did part of the Camino del Norte starting from Luarca. We took a bus from Santander and it looked perfect for cycling with lots of beautiful coastal scenery. The main road was busy in places. You certainly couldn't follow all of the actual posted Camino trail on...
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    where to begin?

    Laurie, The bridge at Ribadeo wasn't finished in September 2008 and it looked like there was quite a bit more work to do. They had one lane open and so there were long queues of cars and trucks waiting to be allowed over. We walked down the middle, more or less as you say, in the part where the...
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    where to begin?

    Hi Rebekah (and Laurie), The albergue in Gontan is open and is really nice although Gontan itself is not my favorite place! The stretch from Mondoñedo to Gontan is quite challenging in terms of hills. If you only have a week I think that Navia would be do-able but definitely a challenge: there...
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    How to connect between the Camino del Norte and the Primitiv

    Hola Laurie, Thank you for the really helpful reply. We did part of the Camino del Norte last year starting in Luarca (we only had 11 days). This year I'm hoping to start in Irún and the possibility of jumping to the Primitivo is very attractive. Buen Camino! David
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    How to connect between the Camino del Norte and the Primitiv

    Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be the best way to connect from the Camino del Norte to the Primitivo? By best I mean least road walking/traffic and with access to an albergue at either end of the connect. From the map it looks like the shortest connect might start at Gijon but...
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    11 days to walk to Santiago

    Hi Paul, I agree with Laurie - we did it in September from Luarca in 10 days with the last day being a short 6 miler into Santiago. There are some quite long stretches ~ 40Km depending on how you split it up with a lot of hills, e.g., out of Mondoñedo. Depending on time of year and the weather...
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